Improvement in car-axle boxes



vl. KINZER.

Car Axle-Boxes.

No. 135,343. Patemedlamzsnam.

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IMPROVEMENT iN CARAXLE BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. lc, dated January S8, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB KINZER, of the city of Pittsburg, in the county cf Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Independent Lid or Cap for Journal-Boxes, ot' which the following is a specification:

The journal-boxes now in vordinary use on railroad cars and other places are made with lids or caps, which are fastened to the outer surface of the boxes with bolts and nuts.

are very generally forced off and broken, to

avoid the time and labor of unscrewing the nuts which hold them to their places. To obviate these diiculties, and to provide a lid which will give easy and instant access to the journal, is the object of this invention.

The drawing exhibits very clearly the construction and operation of this invention.

A is the journal-box for which the lid is made, and to which it is to be fastened. B is the lid or cap, tted to and covering the upper part of the box. On either side of the lid are raised projecting arms C C, extending over the lugs I I, and having recessed openings C C', a little larger than the nuts E used to fasten the lugs, but not large enough to allow' the nuts to turn. XVhen the lid is closed vit is impossible for the nuts to jar off. F is holding the lid B by the open hinges H II formed on the lid, and of a bearing for the upper end of the spring F. For this latter purpose that part of the rod on which the spring rests is bent upward about half an inch, so as togive` sufficient pressure to the spring. I I are lugs which are to be fastened to the journal-box by bolts and nuts through the openings D D, and when t-hus fastened hold the entire lid to the box.

I make these lugs in preference to tranne or case for the lid, because different boxes vary somewhat in size, and in the distance oi the bolt-holes D D from each other; and these lugs, as constructed, can be sprung or adjusted to such variations, which could not be done with a frame or. case.

It will be seen that this invention is intended to be applied to journal-boxes now in use, as well as to those constructed with special reference to its application, and the advanf tages of a lid which simply, by being raised, gives access to the journal will be seen without explanation.

Claims.

I claim as my invention j l. In an independent hinged lid for journal boxes, a wroughtiron bar, G, so curved and arranged as to serve-the triple purpose of con necting the lugs I I, forming a bearing for the spring F, and supports for the hinges II H of the lid, all as shown and described.

2. A lid for journal-boxes with projecting arms G C and recessed openings G C', eperatl Witnesses:

' J. H. BALDWIN,

A. S. NICHOLSON. 

